<p>This Supply Technician position is within the Logistics Service Line at the Providence VA Healthcare System, located in Providence, RI. It is full time at 40 hours per week.</p> <p>This position serves as Supply Technician (Medical) for the Medical Supply Distribution (MSD) areas of Logistics Service within the VA Health Care System. As a Supply Technician, you will provide wards, clinics, operating rooms, secondary storage locations, and other hospital facilities with supplies and material including, but not limited to, sterile and non-sterile medical supplies, instrument sets and equipment.</p> <p>Major duties and responsibilities include:</p> <ul> <li>Pulls stock inventory and material for delivery; replenishes stock inventory; interacts with clinical and administrative customers and maintains records on stock levels; </li><li>Communicates to the Lead or Supervisor any concerns related to supplies, equipment and procedures; </li><li>Provides information to customers regarding medical supplies; </li><li>Monitors expiration dates, rotates stock to limit outdates and removes items from use as required by outdates; </li><li>Monitors and controls critical supplies; </li><li>Performs daily inventory using bar coding equipment on a predetermined schedule that will allow for timely replenishment; </li><li>Resolves differences between records and physical count of stock; </li><li>Distributes items according to established or ad hoc requirements in computerized inventory management systems; </li><li>Delivers supplies in a timely manner and ensures supplies and material delivered are in sterile and operational condition; </li><li>Completes specialty cart preparation; </li><li>Cleans assigned secondary areas in accordance with aseptic principles; </li><li>Receives supplies and material into the medical center's catchment area; and </li><li>Other duties as assigned. </li></ul> <p>Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. EST</p> <p>Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized</p> <p>Virtual: This is not a virtual position.</p> <p>Position Description/PD#: Supply Technician/PD99834S</p> <p>Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized</p> <p>Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved</p> <p>Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized</p> <p>Notifications:</p> <ul> <li>This position is covered by locality-based comparability pay. </li><li>Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held. </li><li>This position is in the Competitive Service. </li><li>Interchange Agreements with Other Merit System: Employees who occupy medical or medical-related positions and were appointed under 38 U.S.C. 4701(1) or (3) [formerly 38 U.S.C. 4104 (1) and (3)] must be serving in a full-time position without time limit and have served continuously for at least one year in this other merit system to be eligible to convert to the Title 5 System. Some exceptions to this rule may apply if you have previously acquired tenure under a Title 5 appointment. </li><li>Veterans' preference does not apply for internal or other current permanent Federal agency employees. </li></ul>